# Posters constantly changing is infuriating

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 5:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/posters-constantly-changing-is-infuriating/906840 "2025-02-25T05:54:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/posters-constantly-changing-is-infuriating/906840/6 "2025-02-25T19:33:28Z")

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Hi drzoidberg33. I appreciate the response and my apologies if the tone of my top comment came across as a bit gruff. I noticed a changed poster late last night for a movie that has been in my library for well over a decade and it was pretty off putting to see the change.

And so the issue I am having is the issue noted in the discussions linked below.

But in short, I would prefer that when a movie poster is set, it should never change on its own. Full stop.

My library is pretty old and of decent size and so when I add something new to it, I will manually do a scan and it will match and set a poster and that all works as expected.

But then I will notice at a later date that the original poster has been replaced – and recently, the posters look pretty bad (I prefer the original poster, or a poster based off of the cover of the physical media).

Here are other discussions of this issue:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/tgei3w/why\_do\_my\_posters\_change\_sometimes/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/tgei3w/why_do_my_posters_change_sometimes/)  
[https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1axe6fu/why\_does\_plex\_change\_my\_movie\_posters/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1axe6fu/why_does_plex_change_my_movie_posters/)  
[https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1202krz/why\_does\_plex\_server\_keep\_changing\_my\_movie/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1202krz/why_does_plex_server_keep_changing_my_movie/)  
[https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/x8o6q7/is\_there\_a\_way\_to\_stop\_plex\_from\_automatically/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/x8o6q7/is_there_a_way_to_stop_plex_from_automatically/)  
[https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b0p5nf/stop\_changing\_my\_posters/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b0p5nf/stop_changing_my_posters/)

I am aware of the feature request for an option to lock posters (here: [Lock Posters](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-posters/755134)) but that would be a reactive setting, whereas a proactive change that simply leaves all posters alone would be a much better way to go about it, IMO.

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